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desi d's insight:

Spotify is definitely becoming a more dominating topic in the subject of radio. To see how it is coming up is crazy. Although i will forever love pandora, spotify might just succeed them in the future.

I chose this article because i thought it was really cool to see how pandora and spotify are in competiton with each other. With pandora having over 72.1 million listeners its hard to believe that spotify will soon exceed that.

This article goes over the impact of digital radio versus AM/FM radio. Even though digital radio listeners are increasing a great deal, AM/FM radio still has the advantage. This is because digital radio hasn't figured out how to include local advertising. AM/FM radio garners 200 million unque listeners monthly, while the most popular digital radio service, Pandora, gets about 75 million. If the digital radio services figure out a way to include local advertising, I believe AM/FM radio will be obsolete.

Image courtesy of CASH Music Six years ago, Maggie Vail and Jesse von Doom launched CASH Music, a nonprofit with the express goal of building open-source tools to help musicians reach their audience—and make a living.

I think people who really post a lot of videos of them doing cover songs, single of their song or a parody of some famous video would be surprised of the background audio it adds to viewers listening to it. I hear people on "Youtube" singing acapella a lot of times and this app could really help those that are in need of the background sound. Everyone cant sing acapella so this is very helpful.

This article is mainly talking about how social medias such as Youtube and Spotify are the reasons people are becoming famous these days. It talks about how the music industry as a whole aren't getting artist famous but how social medias are.

The pros are: its easier to get your music heard just by uploading a video to a social medias. A great example of this is how Soulja Boy got famous from youtube just by a video of his dancing and rapping. The con of having social medias is you never really know who is viewing your music or videos. When you upload a video you could have views, but you never know who those viewers are or if they're in the music industry already.

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